Syllable rime

In the study of phonology in linguistics, the rime or rhyme of a syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda. In the study of Chinese languages, rimes are better known as finals or in Chinese, yunmu (PY: yùnmǔ, TC: 韻母, SC: 韵母).

Related Topics:
Phonology - Linguistics - Syllable - Nucleus - Coda - Chinese language - PY - TC - SC

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"Rime" and "rhyme" are variants of the same word, but the rarer form "rime" is sometimes used with the definition given above in order to differentiate it from the concept of poetic rhyme. This distinction is not made by all linguists and does not appear in most dictionaries.

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